Fact Sheet

BorWin2 HVDC Platform

Status: January 2015

Siemens handed over the BorWin2 offshore platform to the customer TenneT in January 2015. Thus the
link has taken up commercial operation. BorWin2 is one of five North Sea grid connections for which
Siemens was contracted by the German-Dutch network operator TenneT. These links have a total
transmission capacity of more than 3.8 gigawatts. High-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission
technology is used to ensure efficient transfer of the electrical energy to land: The alternating current that
is produced is converted to direct current power at the HVDC platform. This is necessary to transport
energy over great distances with only low losses. The electricity produced in the wind farms is transported
to the German mainland by a subsea cable. Thanks to HVDC technology, transmission losses are less than
four percent. The direct current power is then converted back into alternating current at a second
converter station on land and fed in to the German power grid.

Technical data:

• Capacity: 800 megawatts – enough to supply around one million households

• Voltage: Input: 155 kilovolts (AC/alternating current)

HVDC link: +/- 300 kilovolts (DC/direct current)
Output: 400 kilovolts (AC/alternating current) on land

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• HVDC transformers: 2 offshore, each with a rating of 590 MVA, 2 onshore, each at 585 MVA
• Dimensions: Topside: 72 meters x 51 meters x 25 meters (length x width x height)
(without mountings) Baseframe (+ cable access tower): 51 m x 47 (+11) m x 28 (+29) m (L x W x H)
• Construction: 7 decks incl. upper deck– total height 25 m net / 40 m (incl. cranes)
• Crews quarters: 16 cabins with an individual bathroom and a total of 24 bunks
2 galleys with a total of 4 walk-in refrigerated compartments,
1 multi-purpose/recreation room, 2 lounges

• Heliport: 1 elevated helipad

• Local sea depth: 39 meters

• Bottom of platform: 20 meters above the surface of the sea

• Loading cranes: 2 on upper deck, each with 10 t load carrying capacity at 40 m extension range

• Total weight: 16,000 tons

(11,500 t platform / 4,500 t baseframe incl. steel piling supports)
• DC submarine cable: 2 cables with steel wire reinforcement (Prysmian)
each 200 km long (119 km in sea, 6 km in Wadden Sea, 75 km on land)
. Sea approx. 12 cm cable diameter, weight of around 35 kg/m
conductor cross-section of 1,000 mm² (approx. 3.8 cm copper core diameter)
. Wadden Sea approx. 11 cm cable diameter, weight of around 33 kg/m
conductor cross-section of 1,700 mm² (approx. 4.7 cm copper core diameter)
. Land approx. 12 cm cable diameter, weight of around 15 kg/m
conductor cross-section of 2,400 mm² (approx. 6 cm aluminium core diameter)

• Foundation: 6 pilings (up to 83.5 m long, embedded up to 50 m in the seabed,

2.5 m in diameter each, wall thickness of 8 cm)
• Unit/Emergency 2 auxiliary power diesel generators, each with an electr. capacity of 2.3 MVA
Power supply: 1 emergency diesel generator at 625 kVA
2 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units, each at 40 kVA
2 UPS units, each at 200 kVA
• Cooling: Seawater cooling with heat exchanger for the fresh-water cooling system
1,300 cubic meters/h flow rate (equivalent to 110 bathtubs per minute)

• Land-based station: Diele

• Shipyard: Nordic Yards

• Order received: 2010

• Platform installation: 2014

• Commissioning: 2015

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